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Stevie
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301627313
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 6301627318
Label: United American Video
Manufacturer: United American Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: United American Video
Release Date: March 20, 1990
Running Time: 102 minutes
Studio: United American Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1978-09
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Rating: - I disagree!
This movie was one of my formative movies.
It NEEDS to be available to the current crop of humans. They need to have alternate images of a 'hero' in order to get a well-distributed variety of individuals.
I agree, it needs to be released on a disc format.
Please, put it out on a High-Def format. It was a beautiful movie as well as a poignant one.
Might as well do it right if you're going to bother at this point, eh?
And you could ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant! Now, PLEASE release it on DVD!
There's sooooo much dreck issued on DVD nowadays, day-in and day-out; so much stuff surfeited with car chases, shootings, bombings, chases, meaningless special effects out the ying-yang. All the while there are gems like this movie, out of print even in VHS, waiting to be released, and which probably could be for very little. This filmization of a stage play makes no apologies for being so, and need make none. Like all the best filmizations of great drama, it is the drama, the acting, the words, ... Read More
Rating:  - Wonderfully unusual
The best type of film, one that stays with you and intrudes your thoughts for days and days. Glenda Jackson is as always excellent and Mona Washbourne is a wonderful actor, effortlessly balancing Jackson's genius.
It should be seen over and over to appreciate the beauty of the words of Smith on film
Rating: - By far, STEVIE is the best of the "stagy" films
Throughout her career as the British madame of the tragicomedy mask, Glenda Jackson has featured herself in many productions that have been labeled as "stagy" and "theater-like" (such as MARAT SADE and HEDDA), once in awhile retiring into a Ken Russell project, specifically WOMEN IN LOVE and THE MUSIC LOVERS. When Hugh Whitemore's play STEVIE was going to be given screen treatment after a successful run in English theaters with Jackson playing the highly autonomous poetess Peggy "Stevie" Smith, I am ... Read More
Rating: - "PORTRAIT OF A LADY NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN"
Another Stellar turn by the Great Glenda Jackson who created the role on stage!
An ultra-economic, yet superbly effective little gem of a movie about the life of poet Stevie Smith [1902 - 1971] played by Jackson with Mona Washborne as the "lion aunt", and Trevor Howard as the narrator.
An uplifting look at a lonely life, filled with intentional humor [not quite a 'yuk-fest' - it's very real and very human]. We deal with gain, loss, daily routine, suicide [just an attempt], and ... Read More
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